Makeover For Trade Me Jobs

Trade Me launches the latest version of Trade Me Jobs today, as our favourite online auction venue continues its attempt to dethrone market leader Seek.co.nz.
It’s a rare situation for Trade Me — Number 2 in the recruitment market rather than its traditional position of Number-1-by-a-country-mile.
Over the last 12 months Trade Me Jobs has almost doubled [...]

What’s Hot On Trade Me 23 January 2008

A pleasant change in the Top Ten Hottest Products On Trade Me this week - only one bike/car makes the list. As for the the other nine slots? See for yourself (we’ve included the headline with each listing so you can see how they tried to attract bidders):
10. New TaylorMade R7 CGBMax 3-SW Graph FreeShiping $1
For [...]

HD DVD: Game Over

Gizmodo is reporting that the format war (between high-definition TV recording/playback formats HD DVD and Blu-Ray) is over — and Blu-Ray is the winner. If you’re selling HD DVD consoles or discs on Trade Me, you’d better read the coverage in full.  If you’re just an interested bystander, however, some highlights:
“During the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft [...]

Trade Me Pays Tribute To Sir Ed

Couldn’t let the day pass without noting that Kev the Kiwi (Trade Me’s indigenous icon) pays homage to Sir Edmund Hillary on the site. A fitting tribute from one famous Kiwi in honour of another.

Nintendo The Wizard Of Oz In 2007

The Melbourne Age is today reporting that:
Huge mainstream demand for video games over Christmas and a bumper year for Nintendo caused total games industry sales in 2007 to swell by almost 50 per cent over the previous year.
Holiday sales were dominated by the Nintendo DS handheld and the Nintendo Wii sold more units than the [...]

Crunching The Numbers On Trade Me Jobs

According to Trade Me number-crunching (of 30,000 jobs listed on Trade Me Jobs over the last quarter of 2007), doctors were the highest paid profession advertised on the site and kitchen-hands the worst. 
Wellington showed up as the best paid location for jobs listed on the site, Southland the worst. And Wanganui turns out to be the toughest place to recruit people online.
According [...]

Latest Pricing Changes On Property & Motors

Property Pricing Changes - selling up, renting stays the same.
The fee to list a residential, rural or commercial property on Trade Me has increased from $149 to $199, effective yesterday, 15 January. The fee to list a rental property remains at $49.
Motors pricing changes - if they go, they go up. If they don’t go, [...]

Top Searches From December 2007

What was everyone looking for on Trade Me in the lead-up to Christmas (and in the post-Christmas crush)?
All kinds of everything, but the Top 15 most-searched-for items in Trade Me for December 2007 were:
15 Harley
14 $1 reserve (new)
13 Kayak
12 Trampolines
11 Puppies
10 Louis Vuitton (new) 
9 Wedding
8 PSP
7 Transformers
6 PS3
5 Billabong
4 Unwanted (new)
3 Tents
2 Playboy clothing
1 iPod 

What’s Hot On Trade Me - 16 January 2008

Two-wheeled contrivances are in again.  We’ve come a long way since Pierre Lallement whipped up a velocipede (also known as a boneshaker) in France in 1763.
These days you can choose from utility bicycles, mountain bicycles, racing bicycles, touring bicycles, cruiser bicycles, BMX bicycles, tandems, recumbents, lowriders, tall bikes, fixed gear and folding models. And those [...]

Climb Every Mountain

As more than a few of our media darlings have pointed out (here, here, here and here, for a start), the death of “the greatest living New Zealander” has prompted an outpouring of sentiment in the form of selling off the memorabilia of our illustrious mountain-climbing legend on Trade Me.
Without commenting one way or another about the ghoulish, exploitative nature [...]